New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
100
What are the four Middle Colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
100
What are the 5 Southern Colonies?
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia
200
To allow people to have different beliefs from your own.
tolerate
200
When two groups work together.
cooperation
200
Why were the New England Colonies started?
Colonists wanted to practice their religion freely.
200
What are two reasons why Europeans were interested in settling in the Middle Colonies?
There was ethnic diversity, they could practice their religion freely, there were opportunities to make money by trading or starting businesses.
200
What are two reasons the Southern Colonies were started?
The colonies were started in order to make money, to practice their religion freely, and as a place for debtors to make a new start.
300
A group of countries, states, or people who join for a common purpose.
confederacy
300
A plant that produces a blue dye.
indigo
300
How were the Puritans better prepared to start a colony compared to the Pilgrims?
The Puritans brought more people, food, equipment, and other supplies with them.
300
How did respect and cooperation between many different immigrant groups affect the economies of the Middle Colonies?
It allowed trade and business to prosper. It encouraged more Europeans to come, causing population growth.
300
What were relations like between the Creek and Georgia colonists? Give an example.
Relations were peaceful. Oglethorpe met with Chief Tomochichi to get land for his settlement of Savannah.
400
A special promise between a person and God.
covenant
400
Men who owned all the land of the colony.
proprietor
400
What happened between the New England colonists and the Native Americans (the Pequot and/or the Wampanoag)? Give one example.
Colonists in Connecticut massacred the Pequot in retaliation for an English trader being killed (Pequot War)
The Wampanoag attacked several towns in retaliation for losing more and more land (King Philip's War).
400
What geographic features encouraged prosperity in the middle colonies? Name 2.
Deep rivers and ports allowed for trade.
The rich soil helped farms to thrive.
400
How did colonists make a living in the Southern Colonies?
Colonists had plantations that grew corn, tobacco, rice, and indigo.
500
The height of land above sea level.
elevation
500
Shading on a map that shows the difference in height between land areas.
relief
500
What are two characteristics of Puritan colonial life?
There was a town common or center of town.
There was free education.
Men, women, and children worked together in the community.
There were small farms.
Each man signed a covenant.
500
What were relations like between the Lenape Native Americans and the colonists of the Middle Colonies like? Give an example.
Relations were peaceful. William Penn paid the Lenape for their land. He felt everyone should live together as neighbors and friends.